Jahnhalle (Hamburg)

old Jahnhalle in Hamburg, 1901

The Jahnhalle in Hamburg - St. Georg was a gym on Grosse Allee (today Adenauerallee ). It was built in 1844 by the oldest gymnastics club in the world, the Hamburg Gymnastics Association from 1816 , and was significantly expanded 40 years later. Important events such as the North German Gymnastics Championships in 1934 took place there. In 1942 the hall was severely damaged by a bomb attack. After the Second World War it was used as a refugee shelter. In 1959 a new Jahnhalle was inaugurated.

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• Germany's oldest gymnastics club was founded in Hamburg - horizontal bar, parallel bars and climbing pole in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 29, 1953.
• New Jahn-Halle inaugurated in: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 6, 1959.
• [1] History workshop of St. Georg